Chelsea With Another Shot at Champions League Football Next Season Only if They Fulfill One Condition

What will you choose, Champions League Football or Europa League Football? Every football fan knows the obvious option, but in the 2024-25 Premier League Season, the qualification scenario is very difficult. With six possible available slots, nine teams are in contention. Very few have multiple choices to advance to the Champions League Football, though. Chelsea is the only one in the EPL.

Two-time Champions League winners, Chelsea, have been given a bizarre choice between Champions League football or automatic Europa League qualification if they win the Conference League and finish in the top 5 at the end of the 2024-25 English Premier League campaign.

Champions League Qualification Scenario for Chelsea Explained

Chelsea currently sit 5th on the Premier league log level on points with 6th placed Aston Villa on 63 points and 1 point clear of Nottingham Forest, with games away at home to Manchester United and away at Forest chanpions league qualification is increasingly dicey but maximum points from both games will ensure a return to champions league football

As things stand, the Blues are on course to qualify for the Champions League. They sit fifth in the Premier League table with two games remaining and have, according to Opta, a 56.3% chance of sealing a return to Europe’s premier club competition for the first time since the 2022-23 season.

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According to the UK Sun, the ‘Choosing Clause’ exists to protect a team from one of Europe’s lower-ranked leagues winning the Conference League.

Chelsea play the Conference League final with Real Betis at the Stadion Wrocław in Wrocław, Poland, on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, and if they emerge victorious, they will be presented with the choice between automatic Europa League qualification or the arduous Champions League qualifiers.

If a team fails to progress from the 4 rounds of Champions league qualifiers unlike before, they completely drop out of European competition with no fall back into the europa league which is why teams take up the ‘Choosing Clause’ which gives the team’s the chance to pick the guaranteed, direct Europa League spot.

Chelsea football club and its fans will no doubt prioritise Champions League football and will be prepared to fortify with players in the market, starting with the Club World Cup, on their path to greatness for next season

Babajide Oluwaseun

Babajide is a broadcast Journalist with over 10 years experience on radio in Nigeria. He is addicted to the English Premier league analysing tactics and team formation and when he is done, he is on his pad writing his next piece on football.

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